HTTP is the dial tone of the web. Apps that speak HTTP tend to grow in popularity, such as CouchDB whose built-in HTTP-based RESTful API makes it super easy to store and retrieve JSON data.

Nicolas Favre-Felix gives some web love to Redis fans with Webdis, an HTTP interface for Redis that serves up JSON. Built in C, Webdis aims to be fast like Redis itself. The URL structure takes the pattern of: